Vatican City, Nov 2, 2005 / 22:00 pm
This morning at the Holy See, a group of Vatican and academic leaders announced an historic congress, to be held later this month, which will seek to discuss and unite commonalities in the fields of science, theology and philosophy.
Plans for the First International Congress of the STOQ Project (Science, Technology and the Ontological Quest) were presented in the Vatican press office this morning by Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Msgr. Gianfranco Basti, director of the STOQ Project, Rodolfo Guzzi of the Italian Space Agency, and Vincenzo Cappelletti, professor of the history of science at Rome's "Roma Tre" university.
The congress will be held at Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University from November 9th through the 11th, on the theme: "Infinity in the Sciences, in Philosophy and in Theology.".
Cardinal Poupard, president of STOQ and whose dicastery gives considerable patronage to the project through the Pontifical Universities in Rome, told journalists that the aim of the initiative is "to create a new climate of dialogue within the Catholic Church between scientific culture, ... and our daily life."